The intimate hybridity of roadkill: A Beckettian view of dismay and persistence

Emotion, Space and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 38-47

  Lulka, David ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybridity; Nonhuman; Roadkill; Samuel Beckett; Wilderness

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249125925     PISSN: 17554586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2008.08.008     Document Type: Article

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